While collaboration can be beneficial, it also carries some potential negative aspects if not implemented properly. Collaboration can stifle creativity if group members feel pressure to conform to group decisions rather than express their own ideas. It can also lead to social loafing where people put in less effort when working as part of a team. Additionally, groups may take longer to make decisions and coordinate information. However, these downsides of collaboration can be mitigated by strategies like switching roles within teams, ensuring diversity of skills among members, and allowing alone time for individual work prior to collaboration. When deciding on projects, the scope, ability to be objective, appropriate level of involvement, and productivity should be considered.

1. Negative Aspects Of Collaboration?

2. Collaboration
 It’s one of those nebulous things, like “reputation”
and “phenomenal output” that are important to a
scientific career.
In a bad sense, "traitorous cooperation with an
occupying enemy," it is recorded from 1940;
earliest references are to the Vichy Government of
France.

3. Can Collaboration Take
Us from Being Good to
‘exceptionally’ bad?

4. Why collaboration fails?
Stop, collaborate and conform. When your best people
reach a decision as a group, they can easily become
overconfident with the results based entirely on the
approbation of the group. This can have a quelling effect
on creativity, leading those with better ideas to pipe
down in service of keeping the group happy.
Social Loafing. Teamwork can make you lazy.
When people confuse collaboration with teamwork.

5. Are the negative aspects of
collaboration so severe that we
should avoid making decisions and
working in groups?

6. Groups and teams need more time to process multiple piece
of information and coordinate what they know.
Confused Delegation with Collaboration. The other people in
the group aren’t there to complete your work, they’re there to
work on their own projects, while helping the other members
of the group complete their projects. Each individual’s work
contributes to the whole, but it doesn’t mean you can pawn
your work off on others. Knowing the difference between
collaboration and delegation can help keep your project on
target.

7. How to fix a negative collaboration?
 Switch roles. To get your teams out of the box and spur innovation,
encourage employees to take on new roles they find challenging.
 Put together a balanced team. Don't fill a team with employees who all
perform the same role. Instead, put together a team with a variety of skills,
and ensure each team member has a dedicated and clear-cut role. This
way, the team will take ownership of their specific tasks, further reducing
social loafing.
 Alone time is necessary for creativity. If workers have already done part
of the work solo, they'll have better ideas of the challenges on the horizon,
and will have more specific questions and advice to seek from the group.

8. Wise guy’s suggestion….
When you’re deciding which projects should be collaborative, take these details
into account:
 Scope: Is the project of consequence?
 Personal Opinion: We have different tastes; can people be objective when
completing this project?
 People to Involve: Does your whole team need to be involved, or should only a
few be included?
 Productivity: If you’ve started the collaborative process, are people staying
focused? Know when to cut your losses if teamwork becomes counterproductive.
 You hired smart people; they’ll have ideas.